The desktop environment in Alpine has no official desktops. Older versions had Xfce4, but now, all GUI and graphical interfaces are community contributed. Environments such as LXDE, Mate, etc are available, but are not fully supported due to some bloated integration.

Please, if you find something hard to understand about the integration of the variety of programs, consider further reading until the end of this page to understand important notes about the Behavior of Desktop Environments in Linux

Alpine Desktops: Community Contributions

There are some contributions that will periodically be complete desktops available using the Community Repository Packages, like the MATE Desktop environment; others need Wayland, causing some compatibility problems: